The Bonne Maman Advent Calendar is currently available for purchase, and it generally sells out quite early — well before the ...

Why does school start in the fall? There’s actually a very good reason for this, and it dates back more than a century!

The calendar year, as the name implies, follows the structure of a standard calendar and begins on January 1. A fiscal year lasts for the same duration -- 365 days -- but can begin any time as ...

Calendar Year The 12 months beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 constitute a calendar year. It is the most commonly used type of accounting year by both individuals and businesses.

The marking of a New Year is an age-old tradition around the world—food, fireworks and reflection with friends and family are common threads, but ultimately this varies between different ...

Year-round calendars are not a new idea. The National Association for Year-Round Education, which promotes year-round calendars, was founded in 1972.

For centuries, humans struggled to sync civil, religious, and agricultural calendars with the solar year. Adding a ‘leap year’ solved the problem—though just for the next 3,300 years.

A solar year — the time it takes Earth to orbit the sun — lasts around 365 days, while a lunar year, or 12 full cycles of the Moon, is roughly 354 days.

“I love pictures on calendars, but this is personal,” said Koehler, an 82-year-old great-grandmother of 18. “It’s a family calendar, and it doesn’t have anyone else in it.” ...